Wendy Murphy is a former prosecutor who specializes in the representation of crime victims, women, and children.  She served as a Visiting Scholar at Harvard Law School in 2002-2003, and now teaches a seminar on sexual violence at New England Law|Boston, where she also directs the Sexual Violence Legal News and Judicial Language projects. 

She founded the first ever volunteer legal advocacy program for crime victims and has been providing pro bono representation since 1992.  She writes amicus briefs in courts around the country and consults and lectures widely on child abuse, sex crimes, victims' rights, and criminal justice policy. 

Wendy is a nationally recognized television legal analyst who appears regularly on CBS, Fox News, CNN and other network and cable news programs.  She is a radio talk-show host on Boston's AM680, WRKO.  She also writes a regular column for the Patriot Ledger newspaper. 

Her first book, And Justice For Some, was published in September 2007 by Penguin/Sentinel.

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